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It is a curious thing in human experience but
to live through a period of stress and sorrow
with another person creates a bond which nothing
seems able to break

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about
themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.

-- J.E de Goncourt, "Idees et Sensations," 1866

There is no such things as no chance

-- Henry Ford

Where there is life, there is hope

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by
each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself,
"I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that
comes along."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If i were asked to give what i consider the
single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity it would be this :
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and
when it comes, hold your head high,
look it squarely in the eye and say,
" I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

-- Ann Landers

There ain't much fun in medicine, but
there's a heck of a lot of medicine in fun

-- Josh Billings

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.

-- Anonymous

In order to laugh, you must be able to play
with your pain

-- Annette Goodheart

He who laughs, lasts

-- Mary Pettibone Poole

Faith is to believe what we do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see
what we believe

-- Saint Augustine

Seven days without laughter make one weak

-- Joel Goodman

The most important medicine is
tender love and care

-- Mother Teresa

Happiness isn't about what happens to us -
it's about how we perceive what happens to us.
It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative,
and viewing a setback as a challenge.
If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have,
and start enjoying what we do have, our lives
can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier.
The time to be happy is now

-- Lynn Peters

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are small matter compared to what lies
within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.
We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time
share a general responsibility for all humanity

-- Marie Curie, Nobel prize-winning physical chemist

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.

-- Theodore Hesburgh, Readers Digest, January 1963

An executive was asked what her formula for success was.
"It's very simple," she said. "Just ten simple two letter words :
'If it is to be, it is up to me' ."

The great pianist and composer, Ignacy Paderewski, was once asked by an admirer
how he had reached such a state of perfection in his field.
It must have involved a lot of patience, the admirer remarked.
"Everyone has patience," said Paderewski.
"I learned to use mine."

The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level,
are master users of stories and symbols

-- Tom Peters

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than
by trying to interest other people in yourself

-- Dale Carnegie

There are two things to aim at in life :
first, to get what you want; and
after that to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of people achieve the second

-- Logan Pearsall Smith

The next time you begin to think you are all powerful,
try ordering someone else's dog around

Leadership is the ability to get people to
do what they don't want to do and like it

-- Harry Truman

Character is power

-- Booker T. Washington

Temper gets you into trouble.
Pride keeps you there.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention

To excel is to reach your own highest dream.
But you must also help others, where and when you can,
to reach theirs.
Personal gains is empty if you do not feel you have
positively touched another's life

-- Barbara Walters

If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once.
Then comeback and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack!

-- Winston Churchill

Responsibility gravitate to the person who can shoulder them;
power flows to the one who knows how to use it

Anyone who angers you conquers you

-- Sister Kenny

Even on the most exalted throne in the world,
you are only sitting on your own bottom

-- Montaigne

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-- Dolly Parton

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove,
a tough mind and a tender heart.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends.
Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby
every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.
-- Jewish Prayer

again, to those who are going through a special relationship


It is a curious thing in human experience but
to live through a period of stress and sorrow
with another person creates a bond which nothing
seems able to break

-- Eleanor Roosevelt


and at last and least, with my limited humble knowledge:

"You cannot create a future, the best you do is to create history. The other people just read it."